Sunflowers make bees poop—a lot. ... The bees are important pollinators, both in the wild and in agriculture, where they’re raised and used to pollinate crops including tomatoes and pumpkins.

Additionally, basil attracts beneficial insects like bees and butterflies, which aid in the pollination of sunflowers and ...

Sunflowers require pollination by insects, usually bees, to produce a seed crop. In turn, honey bees and many species of native bees, benefit from the abundant nectar and pollen that sunflowers ...

Members of the Aster and Symphyotrichum genera are long-beloved plants with a wide range of nativity across North America.

The main objectives of these studies were to: 1) define the role of wild bee populations in crop pollination and identify the most important contributing species; 2) investigate the influence of ...

Sunflowers require pollination by insects, usually bees, to produce a seed crop. In turn, honey bees and many species of native bees benefit from the abundant nectar and pollen that sunflowers ...

Roughly 300,000 robot hives are in use across the U.S., scattered across fields of almond, canola, pistachios and other crops ...

Climate can vary across large areas of land, but it can also vary within much smaller areas such as farms. A new study by ...